Music and Sound

Little Airplane Develops New Animated Series with Laurie Berkner

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Little Airplane Productions and children’s music artist Laurie Berkner have joined together to develop the new animated preschool television series, "Sing It, Laurie!"

‘Monster of Nix’ Receives Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Fest Award

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The Monster of Nix has been awarded the prize for Best Original Film Score at the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand.

Pixomondo Makes Liquid Metal Dance to SKRILLEX in GRAMMY Spot

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Pixomondo recently collaborated with TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles to create an abstract dance-infused spot promoting the 2012 Grammy awards show featuring electronic musician and Best New Artist nominee SKRILLEX.

Rango Tops Annie Awards

The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood announces the winners of the 39th Annual Annie Awards, with Rango taking top honors.

Soundelux’s Per Hallberg Heeds 'Call of Duty'

Posted In | News Categories: Games, Music and Sound, People | Geographic Region: North America | Site Categories: Games, Music and Sound, People
A new trailer for the Activision record-setting game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has the look and feel of a blockbuster movie with spectacular action, an all-star cast and a big screen soundtrack created by two-time Academy Award-winner and Soundelux Supervising Sound Editor, Per Hallberg.

mono Taps CRASH+SUES for Cross-Platform Initiative For Parsons

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CRASH+SUES was tapped by mono to provide editing, color correction and graphics for SoundAffects, Parsons The New School for Design’s multi-platform exploration of the relationship between music, design and technology.

Fest Anca Call for Entries

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The submission deadline for the fifth edition of Fest Anca, the international animation festival in Slovakia, is March 30, 2012.

Caviar's Jorma Taccone Directs Electric Guest's Debut Video

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Caviar's Jorma Taccone directs Electric Guest's debut video, American Daydream.

Rob Marshall Set to Develop Into the Woods Feature Film with Disney

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Rob Marshall is set to direct a film adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway musical “Into the Woods,” featuring Stephen Sondheim’s original music, for The Walt Disney Studios.

Golden Reel Sound Editing Nominations Announced

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The Motion Picture Sound Editors announced the nominees for the 59th annual Golden Reel Awards in movie and TV categories.

Cinema Audio Society Announces Nominations for the 48th CAS Awards

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The Cinema Audio Society announces the nominees for the 48th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2011.

Paul Sahre Designs 18-foot Model Hearse for They Might Be Giants Video

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Musical group They Might Be Giants celebrate the announcement of their 2012 US tour with a dramatic video set to their track "When Will You Die?"

Nice Shoes Lights a Fire with Lady Gaga

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Lady Gaga's latest epic, which has had tens of millions of views online since its premiere, is directed by the Lady herself, and features her strutting through a parking lot of car fires and explosions. The explosive effects come courtesy of a collaborative effort between Post Supervisor Foad Faridzadeh of Dream Riders Studio and the Nice Shoes VFX team led by Creative Director Aron Baxter and Head of CG Boaz Livny. It's yet another project that has paired Nice Shoes with a high profile musician.

Not To Scale's Man vs Magnet Creates Digitonal’s Come and Play Short

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The film was conceived and created by Not To Scale director Man Vs Magnet for London based electronic artists Digitonal and their alluring track 'Come and Play’ from their album ‘Be Still my Bleeping Heart’.

Kristen Stewart Offered Female Lead in Akira

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Warner Bros. is quickly casting up its adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal manga AKIRA.

Nice Shoes Opens Portals for Phillip Glass

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When violinist Tim Fain took the stage for the world premiere of Phillip Glass' new work "Partita for Solo Violin" at New York's Symphony Space last month, he performed not to the flurry of live dancers onstage, but to dancers and musicians on five films directed by Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied.

Animated Music Videos are Made Easy at the Aniboom Animation Marketplace

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Independent musicians can now collaborate with thousands of animation professionals from around the world to see their music video become an "animated" reality at the Aniboom Animation Marketplace.

William Shatner Seeks Tunes for Zenoids Toons

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Myouterspace.com announced today the next step in their online development of The Zenoids animated series: a first-of-its-kind, free-to-enter competition that gives every aspiring composer a shot to score a new show’s title theme.

Nice Shoes Polishes The Dirty Pearls

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New York rockers The Dirty Pearls recently premiered their new music video, Who's Coming Back To Who, at the Bowery Ballroom on June 30th.